ALEXANDER III THE GREAT SILVER TETRADRACHM – LIFETIME/EARLY POSTHUMOUS ISSUE OF SIDE – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDONIAN COIN (Inv. 21241)

$1,650.00

21241. KINGDOM OF MACEDON. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm,17.09 g, 26 mm. LIFETIME ISSUE/EARLY POSTHUMOUS issue of “Side,” ca. 323–317 BC.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, wreath in left field, ΔI below throne.
Price 2949 (as Side).
NGC graded CHOICE XF, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5, “brushed,” a coin struck just around Alexander’s death in 323 BC, high-relief strike, with a perfect, full-head Zeus.